The reading of The Philosophy of Freedom should not be a mere reading, "it should be an experiencing with inner shocks, tensions and resolutions".

“In writing I subdue to a dry mathematical style what has come out of warm and profound feeling. But only such a style can be an awakener, for the reader must cause warmth and feeling to awaken in himself. He cannot simply allow these to flow into him from the one setting forth the truth, while he remains passively composed.”

Shock: I have often experienced shock when recognizing the truths in POF in my own life as they awaken me to my one-sidedness or various false idols. It is difficult to read chapter 1 without your illusions of freedom being exposed. In chapter 2 I realized I remain fixed within the world of ideas "as if spellbound". In chapter 10 I was warned that my gurus were"human beings as weak as myself".

Tension: Reading with a desire to understand the book leads to many moments of tension as the connecting thoughts between views seem missing. Why is he now talking about this? What does this term mean? Each sentence becomes so rich with meaning that it becomes a strain to hold the various thoughts within a continuous thought process.

Resolution: Stopping and working with that difficult passage until it is resolved by an insight is very exciting and energizing. It becomes even more exciting when you return to the same passage over and over again with a fresh look and over and over new insights are harvested. The experience is as Steiner describes, "the striking of steel on flint" making me want to get up and walk around the room as the intuition continues to make connections within my knowledge like the expanding sparks from a fireworks explosion. You have to want to know, to insist on resolving the building tension from the reading, and be willing to work for it. And of course follow your own questions that you are excited about pursuing.
Tom